Entries Tagged ‘serial’

Purpose: A common question that many people have who have been playing with serial ports under Linux is to detect serial overrun errors while debugging/testing their serial ports. Unfortunately, there is no utility that I know off which lets you measure the overrun error in real time. However this ability is in-built into the Linux […]

I general use the program minicom to use my serial ports in Debian Linux. Many program including the likes of X server, create a “temporary lock” file in some of the temporary directory in Linux like /tmp or /var/tmp/, so that there is no access violation in case if another user is trying to use […]

Purpose: This blog entry explains how you can determine whether your Serial Ports on your system works or not under Debian Linux. Requirements: Two computers running Debian Linux At least one Serial Port on each of the computer A Serial Cable that runs from one computer (Computer A) to another computer (Computer B) with proper […]